A Pura Belpré Honor Book * A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Verónica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body. Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor. She decides it’s time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her—the truth about her own body.

The world is changing fast. Are you ready for the challenge? What you do in a moment of impact makes all the difference.Moment of Impact: Harness the Explosive Power of Three to Maximize Your Mind, Life, and Business offers essential guidance for becoming self directed, so that you take charge of your thoughts and emotions rather than surrendering control to others and circumstances in your life.The moment of impact is that exact microsecond when you respond to a challenge, an insight or an opportunity especially when those moments are unexpected. Created by a certified international mental game coach and martial artist, this practical guide to personal change shows how to meet those life-altering moments with confidence, power and decisiveness. In this book you'll learn how to apply the power of three key elements:Yourself Your thoughts Your mental strengthsto direct the course of your life and maximize the opportunities offered by these life-altering moments.Based on the author's own life threatening moment-of-impact, this book uses stories, examples and "teaching moments" to reveal strategies you can use to become more self directed, personally effective, and present in any moment.The author has condensed the book's powerful messages into a number of seminars tailored for corporate and professional groups.Seize your Moment. Let the Power of Three show you how.

This book offers both sport psychology practitioners and sport athletes a clear understanding of mindfulness to help athletes optimize sport performance. It provides a clear insight how sport athletes can learn to increase their ability to concentrate, be fully present during high pressure competition and how to effectively respond to distracting thoughts and emotions (e.g. performance anxiety; dread). The strategies offered in the chapters are based on Mindfulness Meditation Training for Sport (MMTS), an empirically supported mindfulness intervention for sport, which was created by the authors. MMTS has been adopted internationally by practicing sport psychologists – used with collegiate, club, and Olympic teams. Through offering a clear explanation of mindfulness and self-compassion (an essential element of MMTS), brief mindfulness based practices, and consistently offering how such practices link to performance – the reader learns to implement all of MMTS or elements of MMTS to help the increase their ability to focus, cope with difficult emotions, and perform their best when it matters.

From an award-winning author and illustrator, a warm, gentle ode to cherished visits from grandparents and the people and places that make us who we are even if we haven’t met them yet. It’s been three years since Abuela’s last visit, and Dulce revels in every tiny detail—from Abuela’s maletas full of candies in crinkly wrappers and gifts from primos to the sweet, earthy smell of Peru that floats out of Abuela’s room and down the hall. But Abuela’s visit can’t last forever, and all too soon she’s packing her suitcases again. Then Dulce has an idea: maybe there are things she can gather for her cousins and send with Abuela to remind them of the U.S. relatives they’ve never met. And despite having to say goodbye, Abuela has one more surprise for Dulce—something to help her remember that home isn’t just a place, but the deep-rooted love they share no matter the distance.

This indispensable guide for building management skills helps readers realise their full potential and improve their managerial performance.

Do you want to: Learn how to embed mindfulness in your everyday life? Understand how to manage feelings of anxiety or depression? Find a healthy balance between course work, job and social life? Face the future with a positive attitude? More than ever students are reporting high levels of stress, depression and loneliness while at university – so looking after your mental wellbeing is just as important as academic preparation. This book provides grounded guidance on how mindfulness can be used to cope with the main sources of anxiety while you are completing your studies, so you can find balance and make the most of student life. Combined with practical and recorded mindfulness exercises, learn how to master techniques and tools to reconnect with the present and yourself, and approach life at uni in a stress-free way.

Giving You the Wow and the How is written by a woman who has been where you might be right now. Sharmen Lane not only shares her story of success and how to achieve great things, because she has personally done it, but she also gives you the simple tools to do it yourself AND shows you how to use them. If you want to change your life, if you want to go from NOW to WOW, Sharmen Lane will show you HOW. She personally went from being a high school dropout manicurist, to a millionaire and college graduate by using the tools, tips and strategies she shares with you in this step by step inspirational book. Sharmen Lane gives you the WOW and the HOW, starting right NOW!